The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . COUNTRY OF THE — 1. Slovenes 2. Romansh 3. Germans 4. Walloons 5. Flemish 6. Dutch 7. Danes 8. Gaels 9. English 10. Irish 11. Welsh 12. French 13. Basques 14. PortuQuese 15. Spanish 16. Italians 17. Albanians 18. Greeks 19. Turks 20. Buloars 21. Roumanians 22. Serbs and Croats 23. Magyars (Hunoarians ) 24. Czechs ( Bohemians ) 25. Slovaks 26. Poles 27. Letts and Lithuanians 28. Russians 29. Finns and Esthonians 30. Lapps 31. Swedes 32. Norweoiant The Map of Europe 247. POLISH CHILDREN Baltic provinces are peopled, not by Russians,bu


The story of the map of Europe, its making and its changing . COUNTRY OF THE — 1. Slovenes 2. Romansh 3. Germans 4. Walloons 5. Flemish 6. Dutch 7. Danes 8. Gaels 9. English 10. Irish 11. Welsh 12. French 13. Basques 14. PortuQuese 15. Spanish 16. Italians 17. Albanians 18. Greeks 19. Turks 20. Buloars 21. Roumanians 22. Serbs and Croats 23. Magyars (Hunoarians ) 24. Czechs ( Bohemians ) 25. Slovaks 26. Poles 27. Letts and Lithuanians 28. Russians 29. Finns and Esthonians 30. Lapps 31. Swedes 32. Norweoiant The Map of Europe 247. POLISH CHILDREN Baltic provinces are peopled, not by Russians,but by two million Germans, an equal numberof Letts and a somewhat greater number ofLithuanians. North of Riga are to be foundthe Esthonians, cousins of the Finns. North-west of Petrograd lies Finland, whose people,with the Esthonians, do not belong to theIndo-European family, and who would dearlylove to have a separate government of theirown. You have already been told in Chapter Vthat the country of the English, if limited by S^*^°^^^race, does not include Wales, Cornwall, or the British islesnorth of Scotland, but instead takes in the north- 248 The Story of eastern part of Ireland and the southern half ofthe former Scottish kingdom. Turning to the Balkan states, we find ourhardest task, for the reason that peoples ofdifferent nationalities are hopelessly mixed andjumbled. However, the kingdom of Bulgariaought to include the territory now held byRoumania south of the Danube River. Partsof eastern and southern Serbia and


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